BFD

BFD may refer to:

Agencies

• Bakersfield Fire Department, in Bakersfield, California
• Boston Fire Department, in Boston, Massachusetts
• Buffalo Fire Department, in Buffalo, New York
• (most US fire departments use the three letter acronym, thus most cities with the initial "b" will have the acronym BFD for their firefighters)

Computing

• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection, a network protocol used to detect faults between devices
• Binary File Descriptor library, the GNU Project's main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats
• Binary Format Description language
• a virtual music instrument meant to simulate a drumset, released by FXpansion

Media

• BFD Records, one producer of the Pebbles (series) of records
• Benelux Film Distributors
• BFD or Big Fucking Day, an annual alternative music festival hosted by the radio station Live 105
• Blizzard Film Department, the film department of Blizzard Entertainment
• Big Fat Dick, a song by the acoustic punk humour group One-and-a-half Flop
• BFD, a jazz-rock fusion band from 1995

Places

• Bakersfield (Amtrak station), California, (Amtrak station code)
• Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania (IATA airport code)
• Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

Sports

• Sailing, Black Flag Disqualification